LC Fiore

Blue Ridge Bookfest

lcfiore — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:54:36 +0000

I will be one of the Featured Presenters at the upcoming Blue Ridge Bookfest, 1:00 pm on Saturday, May 18. The Blue Ridge Bookfest will be held at the Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, NC, and includes exhibitors, featured authors, and a keynote address by Wiley Cash on Friday night.

My presentation will be on the theme of Musicality and Language. Malaprop’s Bookstore will be slingin’ copies of Green Gospel, as well as books by other presenters.

Fore more information, visit www.blueridgebookfest.org.

“Clean Water” Published in New South

lcfiore — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:54:43 +0000

My short story, “Clean Water,” was published in the most recent issue of New South. Mad props to fiction editor Mark Elberfeld for putting together such a magnificent issue.

“The Gravity of Home” Published in StorySouth

lcfiore — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:49:45 +0000

My short story, “The Gravity of Home,” has been published in StorySouth. What an honor!

GREEN GOSPEL Short-Listed for 2012 Balcones Fiction Prize

lcfiore — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:44:18 +0000

Another nice showing for Green Gospel, short-listed for the 2012 Balcones Fiction Prize. Fellow NC writer Liza Wieland was also a finalist.

GREEN GOSPEL Wins First Runner-Up in 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Awards

lcfiore — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:08:35 +0000

Just found out that Green Gospel was named First Runner Up in the General Fiction category of the 2012 Eric Hoffer Awards! It’s really an honor, especially given that the winner was fellow North Carolinian Val Nieman and her amazing novel, Blood Clay.

Here’s the link.

GREEN GOSPEL Named Finalist for First Horizon Award

lcfiore — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:05:10 +0000

My debut novel, Green Gospel, was named a Finalist for the 2012 First Horizon Award. To see a full list of finalists, click here.

Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award for Books presents the First Horizon Award for superior work by debut authors (i.e the first published book of any type by the author). This is an additional distinction beneath the Eric Hoffer Award umbrella.

For a complete list of the 2012 winners, click here.

“The Pit” Wins First Place

lcfiore — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:59:52 +0000

My short play, “The Pit,” has won First Place in the Winston-Salem Writers’ 2012 Ten-Minute Play Contest. Richard Krawiec placed second with his play, “Disabilities,” and Ed Robson placed third with “The Price of Admission.” What an honor!

All three finalists will be given staged readings and time for questions and discussions in front of a live audience in late April, 2012. Scriptwriting guru Nathan Ross Freeman will moderate.

I can’t wait to get back “on” the stage… more details to come.

Literary Bookpost Event Tomorrow

lcfiore — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:26:23 +0000

I’m reading at the Literary Bookpost in Salisbury, NC tomorrow as part of a “Double Feature” with author Gretchen Hummel–if you’re in the area, come on out, and let your friends know! As always there will be prizes prizes prizes…

Barry Larkin Elected to Hall of Fame

lcfiore — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:19:46 +0000

It’s rare I post here about anything not directly related to the business of writing, but I’m just too excited about Barry Larkin being elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame today. I thought I’d share an excerpt from a piece I wrote on him back in 2009:

Congratulations to Barry Larkin on being elected today to the Hall of Fame. Here’s an excerpt from a bit I wrote about Barry back in 2009…

“If Cal Ripken redefined the shortstop position, Barry Larkin took it mainstream. He wore the white polyester uniform with dual red-racing stripes down the legs; his #11 wristbands ran from the bottom of his black glove halfway up his arm. He could just as easily flatten a catcher with the acceleration of a Tomahawk Missile (Mike Heath comes to mind) as turn a perfect pivot on a double play, seeming to hover like a toy glider above the outstretched arms of an incoming baserunner, his feet just a little too large for his jackrabbit legs.

“When finally elected as a starter to the All-Star Game in 1995, he ran out to his position and performed a flawless back-flip, because that’s what Ozzie Smith always used to do. The torch had been passed.

“He was cocky in a way that made other kids want to be him, to chomp bubblegum and wear their batting gloves in their back pocket. He was smooth in a way that could only have been considered smooth in the early-nineties…pre-grunge, pre-strike, pre-world-wide web…when high-fives weren’t just cool, they were choreographed.”

Congrats to one of my baseball heroes.

“Skin & Ink” To Be Included in Anthology

lcfiore — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:14:13 +0000

My short story, “Skin & Ink,” will be published this fall in an anthology forthcoming from Main Street Rag. The theme of the anthology is “TATTOOS.” I’m really happy this stoy has found a home.